August 2017 Google Webmaster Report
This past month, the big items probably was the reveal of the beta Google Search Console amongst a lot of the bugs in the past month with that. Google’s algorithm potentially…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Pinterest Google Spam, Search Console Data, Quality Raters & More
This past week we posted our monthly Google Webmaster Report. Are spammers using Pinterest to abuse Google…
Matt Cutts Still Giving Webmasters SEO Help
Over three years ago, Matt Cutts stepped away from Google eventually joining the government workforce and officially resigning as every one expected to happen over the months.
But Matt is still offering webmasters SEO advice.
Google Crawl Limit Per Page Now Couple Hundred Megabytes
Last time we reported this, I think, was when Google was able to crawl 10 megabytes per page. Well now that is up to a couple hundred megabytes per page.
Google Hints At Data Changes In New Google Search Console; More Of It
As you know, the new Google Search Console beta is in the works and Google actually admitted to it the other day. Yesterday…
Google: Our SEO Starter Guide From 2010 Is Still Relevant
In September 2010, about seven years ago, Google released their “Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide”…
Google Quality Raters Review Algorithms, Not Individual Web Sites
SEOs are somewhat obsessed with the Google quality raters despite Google saying repeatedly that these consultant do not have direct access to change any of the rankings for any of the sites in their index…
Google Tests New Style For Searches Related To
Sergey Alakov caught Google testing a new flavor of the searches related to, similar to the people also search for features. Google is constantly tweaking these user interfaces…
Google Adds Hamburger Menu To Mobile Search
Google has just added a hamburger menu, the three horizontal lines, at the top left of the mobile version of the Google home page and all the mobile search results screens. Go to Google.com on your mobile device and you will the menu at the top left …
Google Replaces Share Button With Save Button In Local Panel
Google has swapped out the share button on the local panel in the search results for a save button. The save button has been on the local panel at the top right in the form of a star icon and that has been brought down to replace the share button…
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Redirecting iOS Or Android Users? Google Says Offer Users Access To Both
Google’s John Mueller said that if you are redirecting users based on them having an iOS device or an Android device…
Google Reveals Details About The Search Console Beta Release
As you know, Google is working on a brand new look and feel and much more in a beta Google Search Console release where we posted screen shots. We even shared the beta URL, if you are in the beta the URL will work, if not, it won’t…
Google AdWords Ads Looking More Like Organic Results
There were a few tweets that caught my eye the other day from @ppchubbub and @dannayroberts that show off Google AdWords ads that really start to look more and more like the organic listings. The only real difference is the ad label…
Google: Structure Your XML Sitemap As You Like
Google loves XML Sitemaps, it gives their bots an easy way to discover all your content. Even better, it gives webmasters a way to see how many of their URLs in their sitemap file were indexed and which URLs were not…
Google: Country-Region Code Letter Case Not Important
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that going capital or lower case does not matter much when it comes to setting the country-region code in your XML sitemap files.
He said either “en-US” OR “en-us” are perfectly fine to use…
Google’s Top Result For Cure For Cancer Says Carrot Juice Is The Cure
If you go to Google and search for [cure for cancer] the top organic result basically says doctors are lying and the cure to cancer is drinking carrot juice…
Google Adds Badges To Images Results For Recipes, Videos, Products & GIFs
Google just announced that they are now adding badges to the image search results on Google app for Android and mobile web. These badges describe an image if it is a recipe, video, product of animated GIF. This way before you click on it…
Google Maps Local Ranking Algorithm Update On June 11th?
There is a new thread at the Local Search Forums discussing ranking changes in the local pack that started happening mid-June. I did not see much or any discussion around this a month ago but now some local SEO experts are discussing it in the forum……
Google Treats Details HTML5 Tag As Toggleable Display:None
With all the confusion around expandable or hidden content on mobile especially with the mobile first index coming eventually, it is no wonder we see so many questions around it…
Google Mocks SEO Experts Who Place Mass Content On Footer
Gary Illyes from Google responded to a tweet last week on Twitter mocking “SEO experts” who place massive amounts of text on their footer. He said those are the same SEO experts who complaint they were hit by some sort of update…